What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
HENRY JAMESWhen you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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